Monday, November 30, 2009

Joy Stealers

Beware of joy thieves! They are definitely out there, they disguise themselves as "friends" who only want the best for you but in actuality are jealous of you. They spend most of the time criticizing and minimizing your thoughts, dreams, appearance, etc. Hoping that by destroying you, it will build them. We have to take precautions against joy thieves by making sure that we get to know who we are and who we are becoming so that no one (not even a so called friend) can shake our faith. Joy thieves when given power tend to affect our emotional state. Have you ever been excited about nothing and just filled with joy, then you spoke to that certain "friend" and after that conversation felt down or depressed and couldn't figure out why? You just had an encounter with a joy thief. You allowed that one person in that one moment to take away that exciting joyful feeling and to rob you of your joy! Arm yourself and prepare for war, let the joy thieves in your life know that you are not going to let them come in a rob you like some kind of wimp. Be strong and courageous and get rid of the joy thieves. If you know that there are people like this in your life be strong enough to walk away from them, you won't be missing anything but all the negativity that they so generously shared. Who the heck needs that!